Hi all, thank you Damien and Werner for your recent replies. Even if the reader is performing o.k. now to my amassment. When I used the feature to create the keys on the card I ran to some strange and not reproducible problems. I think this is what Werner refers to. Once I decided to create the keys on my PC and uploaded them to the Card everything works fine.
For the time being I think the solution is to go for scd-event. This obviously beats to tail the logs. I will try this as soon I will get to it. However - for me it really looks like the scdaemon or gpg-agent are not handling the existing events correctly. It might be worth looking into it as well. I will not rule out misconfiguration by ubuntu or myself. Recent publications are giving up on PGP/GPG which is clearly wrong in my humble opinion. The key questions is for all crypto -> how to securely store your key. Even if SmartCards and alike (Yubikey) are "old fashioned" and geek technology I think for security they are irreplaceable. Thanks and best regards Dirk On 06.01.2017 20:23, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:52, dgouttegat...@incenp.org said: > >> For what is worth, I have two such readers, which are working >> flawlessly with the ccid driver [1] and with 2048-bit keys. I have not >> tried them with the internal driver. > IIRC, I added some workarounds but eventually gave up due to too many > problems. Key generation always failed with Omnikey based readers and > signature creation only works in some cases. > > I have a whole bunch of those readers and they are all crap. Well, > except for the Cherry keyboard, it does work well in the server room > (w/o card). > >> the file $GNUPGHOME/scd-event exists and is executable, it will be >> called on every card reader status change. > I was about to tell this, too ;-) > > > Salam-Shalom, > > Werner > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users